I've noticed this kind of bulge beside the eyes of two of my chickens. It is even on both sides. It's hard to tell if my other chickens have the same bulge because they're all crested and bearded.
Their behaviour is normal, they're eating and drinking fine and quite energetic, and I haven't...
Pretty confident she's a he, only because she started crowing even more. Still looks basically the same other than the comb getting slightly bigger, and still no wattles though
Here's a video of the crow (hope the link works) It still sounds quite pathetic at the moment XD
Yes she's got quite a lot of shiny green tail feathers but they don't look particularly pointy and this is the first time I've had a Silkie so I wasn't sure if that's a general thing or not
Interesting, I didn't know that about the bearding gene but that would explain why my bearded Polish doesn't have wattles compared to my beardless one too
I have a 15 week old Silkie (Jaxxie) whose sex I'm having trouble determining. I had a Sebright rooster (Meiko) that would try to court Jaxxie, and they would hang out with each other the most so I figured Jaxxie was Meiko's favourite girl because they got along really well and were always...
The legs are yellow on the back, I ordered them from MyPetChicken as a Barred Rock, but if they end up being a Cuckoo Marans that's cool too, my husband just liked the barred pattern so we ordered them for the pattern more than anything 😂 I just hope whatever breed they are they're female so we...